Improvement in hitching devices



G. H. BEAR. Hitghing Device.

No 198,559. Patented Dec. 25,1877.

INVENTOB 6 wa// BY WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

PETERS, FIiOTO-UTNOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BEAR, OF MANCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HITCHING DEVICES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,559, dated December25, 1877 application filed November 20, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BEAR, of Manchester, in the county ofYork and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedHitching Device; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, formin g part of this specification, in which thefigure is a side elevation, showing the device applied to a ring in thecurb-stone.

My invention relates to an improvement in hitching devices designed tohold the animal at a sufficient distance from the object to which he ishitched to prevent him from rubbin g or biting the same.

It consists of a stiff and strong standard, having at its outer or upperend a looselyconnected snap hook, and provided at its lower end withthree divergent feet, or a tripod support, braced and held by a circularmetallic ring, and provided with a strap at the junction of its threefeet, which is adapted to secure the device to any immovable object, thearrangement being such as to permit the device to be attached to a ringin thepavement, a post, tree, fence, or the wheel of the vehicle, as maybe convenient or desirable.

In the drawing, Arepresents the rigid standard, carrying at its outerend a snap-hook, B, which is to be attached to the bridle of the team,and is connected through a short chain, a, to the end of the standard,so as to give some freedom to the animals head.

The standard A is made of a tapering metal rod, and is provided at itslarger end with three feet, 12, forming a tripod support, which feet areencompassed and braced by a circular metal band, 0, arranged just abovethe extremities of the feet.

In between the feet, and at the junction of the same, is attached aloop, d, and in the same is arranged a flexible strap, 0, by which thehitching device is fastened to any immovable object.

Now, in using the device, when it is to be arranged vertically, as abovea ring upon the sidewalk, the tripod supports the standard above saidring, and the strap 0 is buckled thereto to hold the tripod firmly down,and the standard rigid and vertical. In applying it to aring in the sideof a house, the standard is arranged horizontally, and the strapfastened in the same way.

In applying horizontally to a tree or post, the ring abuts against thetree or post, and the strap is buckled around the same, and in applyingto a vehicle-wheel or fence the ends of the feet are allowed to projectbetween the spokes or rails, and the ring abuts against the same, whilethe strap is fastened around one of said spokes or rails.

I am aware of the fact that it is not broadly new to hold the head ofthe team away from the point of attachment by a rigid bar, and Itherefore only claim my particular construction and arrangement, whichadapts it to all conditions of use, and correspondingly increases thescope of its utility.

Havingthus described my invention, whatI claim as new is- 1. Thestandard A, having the supportingfeet 12, the circular metal band 0, andthe strap 0, fastened at the junction of the feet, and adapted to beattached to a ring or other suitable device, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

2. The combination. of the snap-hook B, the chain a, and the standard A,having feet 1), ring 0, and strap 0, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 8th day ofNovember, 1877.

CHAS. H. BEAR.

Witnesses W. BEITZEL, W. H. SITLER.

